Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.

My anger rises up within faith and not outside it.

A word is worth a thousand pictures.

For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.

And to write is to sow and to reap at the same time.

The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before. Children had been forbidden to enter.